Principal Consultant - Life Sciences
On-siteBoston, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Lead complex strategic client engagements from project design through delivery, serving as a trusted advisor to senior life sciences stakeholders. Guide consulting teams through execution, coach high-performing members, and facilitate executive-level discussions on strategic business challenges. Drive business growth by developing proposals, building professional networks, and identifying new opportunities across pharmaceutical and biotech clients. Mentor consultants, shape the Asset & Organization Strategy practice direction, and share insights on emerging industry trends. Collaborate across global capabilities to deliver integrated solutions and contribute to thought leadership materials that strengthen market position.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 15+ years of consulting and/or life sciences industry experience
- leadership responsibility
- Deep understanding of biopharmaceutical research and development
- Deep understanding of commercialization
- Deep understanding of organizational strategy
- Deep understanding of the product lifecycle
- Demonstrated success leading complex strategic consulting engagements
- pharmaceutical clients
- biotechnology clients
- healthcare clients
- Proven ability to build trusted executive-level client relationships
- identify opportunities for business growth
- Strong business development experience
- proposal development
- revenue generation
- Experience leading, mentoring, and developing consulting teams
- Outstanding strategic thinking
- analytical skills
- problem-solving skills
- ability to translate complex scientific, commercial, and organizational challenges into actionable recommendations
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
- confidence engaging senior executives
- Strong project leadership skills
- management of scope
- timelines
- budgets
- risk
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint
- Advanced proficiency with Excel
- Advanced proficiency with Word
- Willingness to travel as needed to support client engagements and business development activities
Desired Qualifications
- advanced degree (MBA, PhD, PharmD, MD, or equivalent)
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